Improved foot-scraper



UNITED .STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER RALPH, OF CENTREVILLE, DELAWARE.

IM PROVED FOOT-SCRAPER.

Specification forming parl; of Letters Patent No. 33,491, dated October15, 1861.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER RALPH, of the town of Centreville, in thecounty of New Castle and State of Delaware, have invented e new andImproved FootfScraper; end l do the spring e. On each side of thebox orframe aI fasten two brushes d d, which work hy means of springs s s.These brushes they be removed by unserewing4 and similar appendagesused-to wit, the cleaners m m, as

vshown by the drawings hereunto appended,

marked A, No. 2, iu which Figure 1 shows the cleener iu a. verticalposition, and Fig. 2 the plate of the cleaner horizontally, with the gumor guttn-perche strips inserted. These cleaners are to be substitutedwhere the soil is heavy and stift. I compose these cleaners of a.cast-iron plate of sufficient thickness to admit of the grooves fn. n 'nn, in which I glue or fasten the strips of gum or gatta-perche. o o o o.

This scraper is operated in the following manner, to wit: The foot-isplaced upon the spring end of the bar supporting the scraper with thetoe depressed. The foot is then brought down, so es to force the boot orshoe over the scraper, along the bar, and between the brushes, whichnot. only cleanses the soles of the boot. or shoe, but 'also the sideset the same time. Upon withdrawing the foot the springe,` forces theforked ber up, throwing out. the dirt from the brushes or cleaners.

What I claim as my invention, nnd'desire to secure by Letters Patent.,is The combination of the scraper with the forkedspringbar and brushesor gurls-perche or gu in cleaners, substantially as specified.

.ALEXANDER RALPH. Attest:

WM. B. WIGGINS, S. A. HENDRxeKsoN.

